Wilderness

thumb|White Goat Wilderness Area in [[Canadian Rockies, Canada]] thumb|Stephen Mather Wilderness in the U.S. state of Washington thumb|Innoko Wilderness in the U.S. state of [[Alaska in the summer]] Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural) are Earth's natural environments that have not been significantly modified by human activity, or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally referred to terrestrial environments, though growing attention is being placed on marine wilderness. Recent maps of wilderness suggest it covers roughly one-quar

original landscape formed by nature

organization

self-contained, easily transported units used to purify water from untreated sources

right|thumb|200px|A wild red fox right|thumb|200px|A wild forest Wildness, in its literal sense, is the quality of being wild or untamed. Beyond this, it has been defined as a quality produced in nature and that which is not domesticated. More recently, it has been defined as "a quality of interactive processing between organism and nature where the realities of base natures are met, allowing the construction of durable systems" and "the autonomous ecological influences of nonhuman organisms."

originally Tasmanian, now Australian conservation group